30 years ago, nobody was afraid of vaccines. So enraging to see erradicated diseases reappearing

I love wolves!! Howling in my head as I type this.🤫 Don't want to wake the cats!!! 😾😾😾

I mean, you should be cautious, but mostly because of rabies risk.

We weren't allowed back in the house until the streetlights came on!! Exploring the woods, eating fresh vegetables and fruits from gardens and orchards, all the kids in the neighborhood playing (baseball, football, basketball...etc). Something I'd like to bring back from my childhood...... penny candy 100 PIECES OF CANDY FOR ONE DOLLAR!!! Childhood would've been unbearable if I couldn't have spent most of it outdoors!! (Edit for boo-boos)

They need to bring back quicksand deaths in new movies. I miss seeing those last outstreched fingers as they decently into their eternal entombment.

Being terrible at assessing risk of course carries risks of its own.

Hippos kill way more people than sharks do.

Thank goodness I live in Australia where there's virtually no dangerous wildlife, haha..../s (just in case)

A dull knife is a poor tool as it causes you to apply excessive pressure at improper angles to achieve the desired result and that's how most people end up getting cut

Or _very_ out of date tinned goods. As long as the tin is intact and hasn't "blown" the contents will still be safe to eat.

When injecting syringes they usually flick at it to remove air bubbles even though they’re relatively harmless because they’re too small to do anything

Bees don't sting for no reason, but yellow jackets are a******s.

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I've seen it pointed out before that stuff like weed gummies is *expensive.* Nobody is casually handing that out to 50 children.

MSG and gluten - two things that are "trendy" to be scared of nowadays. (and I'm obviously not refering to people with legitimate health issues like caeliac, but mentioning it just in case because people often can't see the obvious)

Those are pretty words, until your airplane is the one in bad turbulence

Nuclear power is quite safe; it’s the radioactive waste we need to worry about.

I've injured myself most often while cooking.

Can we discuss the non-fatal deaths?

It doesn't mean that "the people" are robbers and murderers, but it can mean that the robbers have more incentive to go after tourists.

Chicken is the one you need to cook thoroughly. You can eat beef raw if you like.

I like how a character in The Stand puts it...Jus run it through a warm room. Yummy

Stead tartare, delicious :)

It's a texture issue for me. Beef is too tough as a cooked steak and feels weird on my teeth so I like it as rare as possible. I started liking steak progressively more as I aged because they were willing to serve me redder and redder meat lol.

Yep...my wife's mom has convinced her that any pink will make her sick. I have slowly been working that back because she really does not like the taste of well done steak.

My mother in law told me not to give the dog raw hamburger as I made meatloaf. Ok, why? According to her, it gives them worms. So, you are telling me there are worms in the hamburger meat? Well...no. So then my dog has worms that are just waiting for hamburger? She turned and left at that. She believes that the actual act of giving a dog raw meat will spontaneously make worms appear.

The reason being is that steaks are cut whole from the cow and any pathogens are usually washed off on the outside. Hamburger, on the other hand, is ground up, so pathogens get mixed into the meat. Plus, hamburger beef from different cows is mixed together, giving a better chance to infect more meat. Meat from one sick cow can contaminate 8 tons of beef, which is why hamburger recalls are so widespread.

Note that some of them have a coating of cobalt chloride - a moisture indicator that turns from blue to pink when moist - and CoCl2 is toxic and allergenic. However, the concentration is so low that it isn't going to poison you unless you ingest large amounts. You're much more likely to either choke on it, or if it is CoCl2 coated you could get a reaction if you are allergic (it is a surprisingly common allergen).

The latest technology is to bury them underneath the power plant property itself. This avoids the risk of transportation. They also dig way below the water table. The glass/concrete containers are nearly indestructible to begin with.

Ah — that depends on what kind of spiders …

The conservative media wants everyone to believe that every large city is an urban hellhole where daily life is like mad Max. Crime rates and small towns are basically the same, the keyword is rate instead of total. Of course how seriously can you take a party when they claim to be tough on crime, and then nominates a candidate for president who has 91 felony charges against him.

As the daughter of an electrical engineer, I tend to be amazed by how un-terrified people are by electricity.

Jellyfish, stingrays, saltwater crock's, blue ringed octopus, sharks, megalodon, piranha, alligators, creature from the Black lagoon. This is why hotels have swimming pools 🤣

Nasty things. I have anxiety disorder, so I don't know what causes most of mine, but I don't wish these on anyone.

Disc brakes, yes. Drum brakes on the other hand are a bit more complex to do.

If it's a permanent park, there are regulations and inspections. If it's a moving fair, there's both wear and tear and less oversight.

Of those options, my preference would be winning the lottery